FVWM: When restarting - FVWM frequently exits instead

[Skip Montanaro]

I use FVWM 2.6.4-2.1.2 on a couple openSUSE 12.2 systems. Frequently
(perhaps half the time), when I select the Restart Fvwm2 entry (which
just executes the Restart function), instead of restarting the window
manager, it exits and the user is logged out. I experience this
frequently. I modified my .xinitrc to make sure core files could be
written, but no core file is dropped.

Since FVWM seems to leave no clues as to its demise, I'm at a loss to
debug this problem. Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Thx,

Skip Montanaro

[Skip Montanaro]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Jaimos Skriletz

Have you made sure there isn't some issue with your config file? Use a blank
config file and see if you can reproduce the issue. That is one suggestion I
can think of to help determine what the cause is.

I'm not sure how that will help determine what the problem is. It
doesn't always crash/exit. It often works just fine.

I can't think of what could be causing this, but there are some things you can
test to narrow down what the culprit is.

Can you provide some pointers?

Note that I am just a novice user of FVWM myself. It took me a couple
hours off-and-one of Googling and searching config files to try and
figure out how to drag windows from the sides.

Thx,

Skip

[Dominik Vogt]

Post by Skip Montanaro
I use FVWM 2.6.4-2.1.2 on a couple openSUSE 12.2 systems. Frequently
(perhaps half the time), when I select the Restart Fvwm2 entry (which
just executes the Restart function), instead of restarting the window
manager, it exits and the user is logged out. I experience this
frequently. I modified my .xinitrc to make sure core files could be
written, but no core file is dropped.
Since FVWM seems to leave no clues as to its demise, I'm at a loss to
debug this problem. Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Is there any message on the X console? If the session exits, then
probably the executable that it tried to restart was not found.
What's the definiton of the restart function?

Ciao

Dominik ^_^ ^_^